Our confidence in the value of our memories has been shaken
by the ease of snapping moments upon moments
of what our eyes appear to be seeing
and our ears appear to be hearing without
a lapse in time to develop and process
the narrative of the those encounters.
Thousands upon thousands of images stored
in a vast network of ether are mostly unretrievable
under the weight of the numbers and
reveal the impossibility of documenting
everything and existing at the same time.
SciFi predicts in the future we will
be able to record 24/7 everything
we see, hear, feel, smell, taste, say.
If someone views this recording of a human being,
whose life will it be?
I feel the futility of those who record every moment in photos that will only be looked at and then sent into storage to the big black hole of pics in the cloud.
Well said.
Thank you!
Thank you